{"id":8089,"date":"2017-03-31T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:11:32","slug":"user-group-newsletter-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/user-group-newsletter-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"User Group Newsletter March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><b>User Group Newsletter March 2017<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BOSTON SUMMIT UPDATE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Exciting news! The schedule for the Boston Summit in May has been released. You can check out all the details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/summit\/boston-2017\/summit-schedule\/#day=2017-05-06\">Summit schedule page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Travelling to the Summit and need a visa? Follow the steps in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/summit\/boston-2017\/travel\/#visa\">handy guide,\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t registered, there is still time! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/openstack-summit-may-2017-boston-tickets-28375675409\">Secure your spot today!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>HAVE YOUR SAY IN THE SUPERUSER AWARDS!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The OpenStack Summit kicks off in less than six weeks and seven deserving organizations have been nominated to be recognized during the opening keynotes. For this cycle, the community (that means you!) will review the candidates before the Superuser editorial advisors select the finalists and ultimate winner. See the full list of candidates and <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.openstack.org\/articles\/superuser-awards-vote-boston\/\">have your say here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP CHARTS COURSE FOR OPENSTACK<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About 40 people from the OpenStack Technical Committee, User Committee, Board of Directors and Foundation Staff convened in Boston to talk about the future of OpenStack. They discussed the challenges we face as a community, but also why our mission to deliver open infrastructure is more important than ever. <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.openstack.org\/articles\/community-leadership-charts-course-openstack\/\">Read the comprehensive meeting report here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>NEW PROJECT MASCOTS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fantastic new project mascots were released just before the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.openstack.org\/articles\/navigating-openstack-community-release-cycles-events\/\">Project Teams Gathering<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Read the the story behind your favourite OpenStack project mascot<a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.openstack.org\/articles\/openstack-project-mascots\/\"> via this superuser post.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>WELCOME TO OUR NEW USER GROUPS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have some new user groups which have joined the OpenStack community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.openstack.org\/groups\/spain-canary-islands\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spain- Canary Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.openstack.org\/groups\/mexico-city\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mexico City &#8211; Mexico<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We wish them all the best with their OpenStack journey and can\u2019t wait to see what they will achieve! Looking for your local group? Are you thinking of starting a user group? Head to the groups portal for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.openstack.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more information.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>LOOK OUT FOR YOUR FELLOW STACKERS AT COMMUNITY EVENTS<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OpenStack is participating in a series of upcoming Community events this April. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 3: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.linuxfoundation.org\/events\/archive\/2017\/open-networking-summit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open Networking Summit Santa Clara<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CA<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OpenStack is sponsoring the Monday evening Open Source Community Reception at Levi Stadium<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ldiko Vancsa will be speaking in two sessions:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday, 9:00-10:30am on &#8220;The Interoperability Challenge in Telecom and NFV Environments&#8221;, with EANTC Director Carsten Rossenhovel and Chris Price, room 207<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thursday, 1:40-3:30pm, OpenStack our Mini-Summit, topic &#8220;OpenStack:Networking Roadmap, Collaboration and Contribution&#8221; with Armando Migliaccio and Paul Carver from AT&amp;T; Grand Ballroom A&amp;B<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> April 17-19:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2017.dockercon.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> DockerCon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Austin, TX<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Openstack will be in booth #S25<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 19-20: Global Cloud Computing Open Source Summit, Beijing, China<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Perez will be delivering an OpenStack keynote<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>OPENSTACK DAYS: DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have lots of upcoming OpenStack Days coming up:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Upcoming OpenStack Days<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/australiaday.openstack.org.au\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 1: Australia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack-israel.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 5: Israel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openstackceeday.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 7: Budapest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openstack-tage.de\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 26: Germany Enterprise (DOST)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read further information about OpenStack Days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/community\/events\/openstackdays\">from this website.<\/a> You\u2019ll find a FAQ, see highlights from previous events and an extensive toolkit for hosting an OpenStack Day in your region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>CONTRIBUTING TO UG NEWSLETTER<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you\u2019d like to contribute a news item for next edition, please submit to this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.openstack.org\/p\/User_Group_Newsletter\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">etherpad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Items submitted may be edited down for length, style and suitability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This newsletter is published on a monthly basis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User Group Newsletter March 2017 &nbsp; BOSTON SUMMIT UPDATE Exciting news! The schedule for the Boston Summit in May has been released. You can check out all the details on the Summit schedule page. Travelling to the Summit and need a visa? Follow the steps in this handy guide,\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t registered, there is&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/user-group-newsletter-march-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read User Group Newsletter March 2017\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}